Coach Barry Trotz talks about team's need to find more balance

12:33 AM,
Apr. 22, 2013

Predators coach Barry Trotz says the team may have too many similar players.

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Josh Cooper
| The Tennessean

There's few better compliments for a Nashville player than when coach Barry Trotz calls him a "Predator."

It basically means an un-hyped, gritty, two-way player who is hard to play against, and has pushed himself through the ranks to become a strong NHL component. The Predators have often been loaded with such players.

So it was a little startling when Trotz said this last Saturday: "We have too many similar players and that's something we have to change." ...